The nursery rhyme

Cover title

At head of title: Price sixpence, or mounted on linen, one shilling

Illustrations and cover design by Walter Crane

Date of imprint, with a design date of 1869, from Spencer; Massé suggests publication date of 1869

"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer ..." --P. [4] of cover

Consists of 4 bifolia printed on one side, chromoxylographs with letterpress, saddle stitched in col. pictorial stiff paper wrapper; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside of wrapper

citation/reference: Spencer, Isobel. Walter Crane, p. 202

citation/reference: Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12

action: conserved, repaired; 2015; Georgia Southworth Conservation; pda DSI SWC grant

Spencer, Isobel. Walter Crane

Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane

conserved, repaired;

CHMRB copy 39088007421639 had conservation treatment supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee in 2015

CHMRB copy has the original wrapper (earliest version?): Printed in red, green, and black on dark yellow; publisher's advertisement on back cover, reading: "Routledge's new sixpenny toy books. Beautifully printed in colours, by Messrs. Leighton Brothers, Kronheim & co., Vincent Brooks, Edmund Evans, and Dalziel Brothers"; series nos. 37-98 (with gaps) in a single list; Evans's imprint at foot ("Fleet Tstreet" [i.e. Street]); quotation from The Standard at head dated Dec. 23, 1870

CHMRB copy has signature on first leaf: Herbert Richards

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